Blog roll: Joe Duffy
Another awesome blog totally worth reading is by Joe Duffy, who is a Lead Architect at Microsoft, and an expert in concurrency, performance, and memory. Calling it a blog is unfair to bloggers- he really doesn’t update it often. But the articles he has on there are incredibly lucid and interesting, revealing information I’ve never read on any blog, anywhere (stuff you can generally only find in books and papers, except delivered much less formally and much easier to understand).
Definitely go and read these posts:
Dense and pointer free (regarding memory performance)
The premature optimization is evil myth
Thoughts on immutability and concurrency
I could go on and on (and in fact, those are just his 4 most recent posts- they’re all gems), but almost every post is incredibly deep and worth reading. So do what I do with all those inactive MSDN blogs: bookmark it, read through it in a weekend (or for Joe’s, a few weekends).
